Kirn Chosen as MAAC Consultant for the 2025 NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum

EDISON, NJ – Siena Swimming & Diving and Water Polo student-athlete GayLynn Kirn was certainly one of three chosen to function Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Representatives for the 2025 NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum. Elise Barricelli (Quinnipiac) and Kirn are student-athlete choices, whereas Jack Pinho (Sacred Heart) is representing as an administrator.
 
Kirn was a MAAC All-Academic Team member, a MAAC Academic Honor Roll choice, and was named to the Eastern Athletic Communications Association (EAST-COMM) Academic Honor Roll in 2024-25 for each sports activities and chosen to the ACWPC All-Academic Team (Superior) in water polo. Kirn owns this system document within the 200 freestyle (1:52.74) and has a high 10 time within the 200 backstroke (ninth – 2:09.13) in swimming. In water polo, she has appeared in 37 video games in two seasons, logging six factors on two objectives and 4 assists. Additionally, Kirn recorded 12 steals and eight drawn exclusions.
 
The NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum, created in 1997, has served as a life-changing expertise for greater than 5,000 student-athletes who’ve grown personally and professionally as a consequence of their attendance. Student-athletes chosen to attend the discussion board return to campus with invaluable management abilities, a refined understanding of the connection amongst private values, core beliefs and behavioral kinds, and the assist of a detailed private community of like-minded friends to offer continued connection and dialogue after this system concludes. This best-in-class programming expertise serves as a transformational alternative for student-athletes and directors to construct a management toolkit and develop very important self-awareness that permits them to appreciate their potential. 

The NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum will happen in Dallas, Texas from November 20-23. All collaborating student-athletes have to be in good tutorial standing and have demonstrated a robust need to steer.

Both collaborating student-athletes and attending directors and coaches return from the discussion board with enhanced management capabilities that enable them to thrive personally, professionally and even athletically. They construct a household of workforce members that encourages vulnerability, challenges each other with various views, and supplies unconditional assist throughout and after this system.

More details about the NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum will be discovered here. 

 

About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:

With 13 establishments strongly certain by the sound rules of high quality and integrity in lecturers and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its forty fifth 12 months of competitors in the course of the 2025-26 tutorial 12 months. Current convention members embrace: Canisius University, Fairfield University, Iona University, Manhattan University, Marist University, Merrimack College, Mount St. Mary’s University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Sacred Heart University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena University.

 

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